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jamminvroomvroom · 2 years

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maybe. part 4

GR x fem!reader

find the other parts on my ✨masterlist✨

hello it is me, president of the george thirst fan club 🫶 this man is my one singular thought so here is part 4. i think this is gonna have more parts bc i’m enjoying writing him so much he’s so sexy i’m crying

in which george takes you on a date

warnings: 18+!! SMUT SMUT ITS ALL SMUT BEWARE!! ehehe, a bit of fluff too for once lol

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despite every single one of your best efforts, you didn’t finish your interviews until much later that evening. even when they were done, your sessions hurried along by your blunter than usual questions that you usually saved for george, you’d been summoned to the stage to interview lando. and then lewis had arrived, and it wasn’t exactly like you could say no to him, enticed by the way he livened up the crowd. your energy levels were drained, thighs still aching from your rendezvous in george’s motorhome, and the end of the day was still nowhere in sight. neither was that dinner you’d promised him. you’d huffed as you’d shot him an apologetic text, wondering how he, a driver, had made it out of the paddock and yet you were still working.

he’d told you it was fine, suggesting tomorrow night in london instead, a winky face accompanying the message that should have made you cringe. you didn’t cringe, though. you did something way worse, staring down at his reply with a lovesick grin and teenage-esque butterflies in your stomach. it was bizarre, the way things had taken such a turn between you, those moments you’d shared while you were still on his lap. his words, your hands in his hair, the look in his eyes - it had all just felt different. different to monaco, different to montreal, just different.

good different.

another night was spent at your hotel near the track, far too exhausted to try and make it back to london after four intense days of relentless work. despite your exhaustion, it was much harder to fall asleep than you had anticipated. all you could think about was him. his hands, his lips, his eyes. the ripples of his body, his touch, the fading trace of expensive aftershave. you couldn’t pinpoint when exactly you’d become addicted to him, but you knew you were a goner. your dreams that night, after a lot of tossing and turning and hands between your thighs trying to tire yourself out, were filled with the sound of his voice; “you’re all for me.”

finally you’d made it home, another obstacle out of your way, before you were faced with others. what the fuck does one wear on a date with george russell? where is he taking you? what are the chances of an, ahem, sleepover?you spent the remainder of your day agonising, until you decided that george would probably enjoy anything that you wore, just as much as he would enjoy taking it off of you. you went for the classic, a little black dress, almost rolling your eyes at the cliché but you didn’t care all that much, you looked the right balance of sexy and elegant, and you felt it, too.

you checked your phone, hearing it ding.

‘picking you up in twenty xx’

the kisses brought back that embarrassing smile that you believed you were stronger than, but you couldn’t fight it off of you face. you replied, letting him know that you were ready. your phone dinged again.

‘can’t wait to see you xx’

his reply did nothing to make your smile waver, in fact, your cheeks were starting to hurt.

dinner with george was somehow even better than you’d expected. he’d picked you up, opening your car door, hand holding yours as your lowered yourself into his sleek mercedes. he’d opened the door again for you when you’d reached the restaurant, taking your hand in his once more as he led you into the dimly lit restaurant. it was beautiful, quiet, tucked away in a posher part of london that you only ever visited for work related reasons. you supposed that in a twisted and hilarious way that this dinner was, in fact, work related. ironically, work hadn’t come up once. it hadn’t come up during the starter you’d shared, when your bottle of red wine had arrived or during your mains. instead, you’d talked about everything but, shockingly sharing plenty in common. he had you laughing, leaning in, intrigued as you listened to him speak.

the only thing left was dessert, and the more you looked at him, eyes dancing across his neck and over the undone buttons of his white dress shirt, the more you were sure that you wanted dessert. preferably, back at his place. or at yours, you weren’t exactly fussy.

“so, how was the rest of yesterday for you?” george asked, head tilting, eyes inquisitive.

“tiring, just went on forever. although, i did get to see lando do a shoey.” you shrugged, grinning at the memory. george laughed lightly as you picked up your glass of wine.

“tiring, hmm? maybe i need to take you to bed.” you almost choked, placing your glass down on the table, your eyes narrowing, thinly veiling your amusement. he was staring back at you, trying to convey innocence with a look of pure mischief in his eyes. you decided to play along.

you moved the conversation away from that place, guiding him back to safe territory. he followed along, either oblivious to your antics, or loving every second. you were discussing your favourite bars in the city when you struck, heel brushing up the leg of his expensive jeans. he coughed, eyes widening, covering his shock with a quick sip of water.

“are you okay?” you feigned concern, sliding your hand across the table to rest on top of his, his long fingers rigid against the table cloth. you gazed at him innocently, wide eyes betrayed by the small smirk on your lips.

“absolutely perfect, darling.” he spoke through gritted teeth, smile painted on. you let your eyes wander, raking them over his broad shoulders, thick neck, the veins in his forearms peeking out from the rolled up sleeves of his white shirt. you picked up his hand delicately, placing it palm up on the table, eyes locked on his blue ones. your fingertips traced his palm, before you were playing with his fingers. his were so much longer than yours, thicker, perfect for reaching spots that you wouldn’t ever be able to. your breath hitched, so faintly that you hoped he wouldn’t pick up on it, but of course he did.

“what are you thinking about, darling?” george looked unfazed, back to being his calm and collected self already. suddenly, you were the mess, right where you’d tried to get him. “you thinking about my hands?” his voice dropped an octave, making sure that only you could hear him.

“thinking about what you can do with them.” you uttered, rather confidently to your own surprise. the least you could do was try and catch him out, beat him at his own game. the only problem was, the situation you found yourself in no longer felt like a game.

“your own can’t compare, right? too small to get the job done properly. that’s what you’re thinking about, isn’t it? because you couldn’t have me last night, bet you had to take care of yourself at the thought of what we could have done.”

“lewis and lando held me up.” you saw his face change slightly at the mention of the two other drivers and you realised that you had found an advantage. “unfortunately, they had to come first.” you faked a pout, enjoying the way his jaw clenched.

“lando and lewis definitely do not come first.”he replied. you giggled at the double meaning. suddenly, his fingers intertwined with yours, warmth spreading across your skin, to match the goosebumps left behind by his words.

“they did yesterday.” you tilted your head, gaze challenging his.

“pretty sure that you came first yesterday.” he licked his lips. you blushed.

“yeah, well, made me late for work.” you flipped your hair over your shoulder, trying to play it nonchalant.

“is that so? i’ll remember that. next time i won’t let you.” he leaned back in his chair, playing with your fingers. your mouth hung open for a second, before you snapped back to reality.

“i’m pretty good at taking care of myself.” you muttered, pursing your lips.

“tell me all about it.” he smirked. you raised an eyebrow. “go on, love. tell me all about your evening.”

“why don’t i tell you in the car while you drive me back to your place?”

you’d never seen a man move faster. he’d paid the bill and practically dragged you back to his car before you could even comprehend what you’d actually said. now, sat in the passenger seat, his fingertips working up your leg, you couldn’t find the words.

“george,” you breathed, his fingers pressing right against the wet patch on your panties. “don’t tease.” you begged. you could feel yourself getting hotter and hotter as he rubbed small circles over your panties, one hand on the wheel. he didn’t even look at you, smirking evilly as he drove.

“should have thought about that before you teased me, sweetheart. now go on, don’t be shy. i want every detail.” he said, rubbing harder at your clit.

“got myself off.” you muttered weakly.

“to what?” he pressed on.

“thought of you. your fingers, oh!” you moaned, feeling him push your panties aside, a finger dipping into your wetness. he stopped at a red light, daring to look at you.

“and what did you do to yourself, my love?”

“used my fingers, got myself so wet.” you gasped, feeling one of his fingers dip into your entrance, hooking inside of your cunt perfectly.

“as wet as i get you?”

“never.” you breathed, eyes fluttering shut, head hitting the headrest as he fucked you further into the seat.

“how many times did you cum, baby?” he added a second finger, your hips raising off of the leather seat.

“only once.” you whimpered, eyes rolling back as he stretched you open.

“bet you were so tired from our afternoon together, but you still had to get off one more time, all for me, right darling?” the sheer arrogance in his voice sent you to another level, pussy clenching tightly around his fingers as he dared you closer and closer in the front seat of his moving car.

“yes yes yes.” you chanted, shaking now, inching higher and higher to your peak.

“come on, sweetheart. cum for me, gorgeous.” he murmured, fingers curling deliciously. you spilled all over his fingers, flopping against the seat, worn out already. you didn’t know how he’d gotten you off so effortlessly, whilst perfectly navigating the busy london streets but you were in awe, staring at him like he’d been sent by god. he glanced over at you, head rolling against the headrest, bringing his fingers from underneath the hem of your dress and up to his mouth. just before he swiped his tongue over them, he looked you dead in the eyes and smiled.

“i’m going to fucking ruin you.”

george’s apartment was nice.

well, you assumed it was. you hadn’t seen much of it, really, quickly guided through the front door and to his bedroom. his hand held yours tightly the whole way, bringing you to stand in front of him, facing his bed. he was behind you, both of his hands covering yours, resting them on your waist. he held them there, firm against the material of your black dress. slowly, he dragged both sets of hands up your body, over the curve of your waist and up your ribcage. soon enough, he had you cupping your breasts, head tilting back to rest against his shoulder. he tightened his grip, your hands massaging your tits at his complete mercy.

“you like touching yourself, don’t you?” george’s voice was right in your ear, his whisper sending a shiver down your spine that caused your ass to grind back against him. “watched you in baku, watched you use your fingers on that little pussy,” he kept one of your hands in place over your breast, the other slowly moving back down your body, holding you close. “you keep telling me how well you take care of yourself, sweetheart,” your hands moved under the hem of your dress, pulling it up until your panties were exposed. your fingertips were pressed to the soaking material. “but we both know you like it better when i do it.”

“fuck, george.” your mouth fell open as he encouraged you to move your fingers, his hand guiding the slow circles you were making on your clit.

“can you feel that, sweetheart? feel how wet you are? how wet i got you?” he muttered, catching your earlobe between his teeth.

“yes, god, please. just need you to fuck me. need it so bad.” never had you craved someone the way you craved him.

it was almost strange, how he’d managed to keep you wrapped so tightly around his finger, pun very much intended. he was consuming you, first your body, and now your mind, and you wondered how far this would go. the date was good. in fact, it was one of the best first dates you’d ever had, and you couldn’t help but consider where this could lead, as his spun you around in his arms, kissing you deeply. the animosity between you had been fucked away in canada and now, you were ready for more. you needed more. anything he would give you.

“what do you want?” he mumbled, lips barely parting from yours as he walked you backwards, closing in on the foot of the bed.

“anything.” you whined, fisting the collar of his shirt in your hands, pulling him even closer.

“tell me what you want.” george demanded, not leaving any room for debate. your eyes fluttered open, locking with his darkened ones.

“your tongue.” you whispered, almost shy under his intense stare.

he smirked instantly, beginning to unbutton his dress shirt. you watched on, borderline confused as he dropped it to the ground, stepping around you to settle onto his expensive bedsheets, the navy of the linen contrasting beautifully against his skin. once he’d made himself comfortable, he eyed you up and down.

“take all of that off.” he gestured to your dress, still bunched up around your waist. you made quick work of your clothes, a quick mess being made of his bedroom floor. “get on the bed, darling, that’s it.” he coaxed you closer with a flick of his fingers. you crawled up the bed until you were kneeled next to him, unsure of what your next move was supposed to be, until he tapped his collarbone and your mouth went dry. “sit on my face, my love.”

he looked positively devilish as you swung a shaky leg over his head, strong forearms instantly looping around your thighs and pinning you against his mouth. you moaned desperately at the contact, hips rolling of their own accord as his tongue licked into your cunt, relentless against where you were dripping for him. george seemed quite happy with the way you rolled your hips to meet his tongue, groaning loudly, the vibrations making you speed up.

you rocked against his face, his plush lips wrapping around your aching clit, knuckles turning white as you held onto his headboard for dear life. his tongue alternated, sucking your clit into his mouth, before swiping down your slit to slide into your opening. one hand fell into his hair, tugging hard, a hum emitting from him in response that made your entire body shake as you came, his name and the occasional profanity being the only thing you could remember as you saw white.

you didn’t quite know how you’d made it onto your back, somehow finding the strength to pull yourself off of him and fall against the mattress. you’d left him a bit of a mess, but still george rolled on top of you, not wasting any time. he held himself above you, staring down at you as you caught your breath, tongue running over his lips.

“are you okay, darling?”

you nodded in response, hand making its way back into his hair, threading through the locks.

“got another one for me? you’re doing so good, sweetheart.” he crooned, eyes still devious, as his voice softened. again, you nodded, pulling him down to kiss you.

as george relaxed on top of you, your legs hooked over his jean-clad waist, bringing him down completely on top of you. he was so warm, covering your completely. your ground yourself against his crotch, hissing as the material of his jeans rubbed against your pussy, your two orgasms of the night leaving you sensitive. he rolled his hips a few times until you cried out, pressure already building in your stomach when he stopped.

“always make such a mess.” george muttered, pecking your lips one last time, pulling himself off of you to remove the rest of his clothes. once he’d settled back on top of you, something in his expression had changed. his eyes, still dark enough to show his lust, were softer, gazing at your parted lips and into your eyes. his hand came up to cup your cheek, body resting on his forearm by your head.

“look so pretty like this, all ready for me.” the pad of his thumb stroked your cheek, and you climbed your legs high around his waist. “so fucking pretty.” he whispered.

“want you.” you whispered, hands cupping his cheeks. he dipped down, nose brushing yours.

“i know, baby, i know.” his lips brushed yours and he lined himself up with your entrance, sinking into you slowly.

you moaned into his mouth, lips barely pressing against yours as he groaned, feeling the way you were squeezing him already. slowly, he pulled out, only to snap his hips back against yours, filling you up. he set a rhythm, slow and deep, fucking you hard.

“‘m not gonna last long.” you gasped, nails raking down his back. you could barely think, barely speak, senses completely overwhelmed, an incoherent mess on his sheets.

“you’re gonna hold it. doing so well, my darling. squeezing me so tight.” he spoke through gritted teeth, the praise sending a new wave of heat across your already flushed body.

“can’t hold it,” you whined.

“wait for me, baby. such a good girl for me.” he crooned, pressing a kiss into the crook of your neck, a mark quickly being sucked into the skin. his hips sped up, a gasp sounding from the back of your throat.

“george, please.” you could feel tears building in your eyes and you knew that you were there.

“wait. come on, be my good girl.” he ordered, rhythm getting sloppier as he neared his own orgasm.

“fucking me so well, i- please, baby. george.” you dragged out the syllables of his name, the grunt he let out at your words making your pussy pulse around him.

“there you go, baby, cum for me. come on darling, cum all over me.” george groaned, hips rutting against yours as he fucked your through your orgasms. you could feel him slowing down, his release painting your walls as your rapid breathing gradually slowed.

you pulled him in for a kiss, your lips not parting as he pulled out of you and laid on his side, bringing you with him. your lips moved together slowly, soft kisses that made you dizzy. you smiled when he pulled away, relaxing onto his back, pulling you against his chest. you curled into him, enjoying the closeness.

this was new.

you’d never cuddled before, another line being crossed. you enjoyed the pleasant silence, the both of you exhausted as you laid in his arms. eventually, you wondered if you needed to leave. his embrace hadn’t loosened, but you panicked, once again unsure of what this meant to him.

“i should probably go, don’t want to be a bother.” you mumbled awkwardly, breaking the peaceful, easy silence.

“a bother? you’ve never worried about bothering me before.” he laughed. you glared up at him playfully. “all those times you’ve chased me down in the paddock, practically held me at gunpoint and asked me the most ludicrous things, and now, i invite you into my house willingly and you’re worried about bothering me?” george continued to tease you. you looked away shyly, a coy smile playing on your lips.

“just doing my job.” you muttered, trying not to laugh along with him.

“much prefer the other type of job that you do.” you slapped his chest playfully, your night on the yacht flashing before your eyes.

“you’re awful.” your rolled you eyes, grin betraying you.

“you love it.” he was laughing again. what a beautiful sound.

“i don’t.” you tried to ignore the way your stomach twisted at the word love and the complicated implications.

“i reckon you could.” he stopped laughing, that same hopeful look that he gave you at silverstone driving his beautiful features.

“yeah. maybe.” you smiled at him, a genuine, heart stopping smile, just like the one he gave you when you realised that this was real.

as you gradually fell asleep in his arms, held close in his embrace, the soft rise and fall of his chest coaxing you into a deep slumber, you had a feeling that ‘maybe’ wouldn’t just be a maybe.

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f1-stuff · 2 years

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How to Make High Quality Gifs

A few people have asked me for a gif tutorial, so here we go! As a disclaimer, there are many parts of gif-making that are subjective, and this is just my personal process/preferences. If anyone is confused about a particular step, or wants more in-depth info about something, just message me!

Tools: ✧Laptop/computer ✧Adobe Photoshop 2024 ✧External Hard Drive (mine is 250GB) ✧Video Downloader (I use the Video Downloadhelper extension on Firefox)

PHASE ONE: Make Animated Gif

1. Download high quality video This is very important! You should download the highest quality of the video you can find. I use the free Video DownloadHelper extension on Firefox, but it doesn't download audio sometimes (it could be me not using it properly, or they want you to pay to get audio). No audio is fine for gifs, but if I'm doing a video edit, I either need to record the audio separately with Quicktime or use a free online downloader for youtube, twitter, or instagram videos.

For this gif, I downloaded an HD interview from the F1 website with the Video DownloadHelper extension on Firefox.

Tip: Make sure your video file is an .mp4 -> photoshop can struggle with .mov files bc they're larger

2. Import: Video Frames to Layers...

File -> Import -> Video Frames to Layers... -> Open your video -> Selected Video Range -> Make Frame Animation

If photoshop has to load a while to make the frames, it means you should select a smaller portion of the video to animate.

Tip: If you discover that there are duplicates of every frame or that there are way too many frames for the portion of video you want to gif, you may need to re-import and check the "Limit to Every _ Frames" box, and write in "2". This will import every other frame of the video and get rid of duplicates or too many frames.

Once your frames are imported, make sure you're working in the "Motion" workspace by going to the top to Window -> Workspace -> Motion.

Now, all your frames should appear at the bottom in the Timeline. Make sure that the box in the left corner is set to "Forever", and now it should play the frames and loop back to the beginning each time.

3. Choosing your frames I usually aim for around 60 frames total for a gif, but sometimes I'll go under or over that number. This particular gif is 55 frames in total. In general, I want my gif to be around 3 seconds in length bc under that feels too short and over that starts to be a large file size. Totally subjective, though! (edit: I have started to experiment with up to 80 frames for some gifs, which comes out to about 4 sec.)

Play through your frames and if you want to delete some, select them and click on the trashcan icon, which you can see in the screenshot above. (If you don't delete them this way, you'll have issues later.)

4. Set Frame Delay

Once you're happy with your frames, select all of them and click on the part that says "0.02", then go to "Other..." I usually choose 0.05 or 0.06, to land my gif around 3 seconds, but it depends on the video and how many frames you have. This particular gif is set to 0.06 because it looked good and brought me to around 3 seconds.

You can always choose a delay and if you don't like it, go back and change it! Just do what looks good to you.

5. Convert to Video Timeline

Click on the symbol that looks like 4 lines stacked, and choose "Convert to Video Timeline". Now is usually when I play through the gif to see what the speed is looking like/if I like the frame delay and it's landing somewhere around 3 seconds. If not, you can just Undo and adjust anything when it's still in the frame animation stage.

Next, scroll through the Layers on the right side and delete any layers that don't have the "eye" symbol next to them -> these are frames you deleted in the frame animation stage, but they need to be deleted in the timeline stage as well. Lastly, select all your remaining layers (which should all have the "eye" symbol) so they're all highlighted.

6. Convert to Smart Object

With all layers selected, go to the top to Layer -> Smart Object -> Convert to Smart Object. Ta da! You have a gif.

I always make sure to save my file at this point (you can do it before, but it just depends on how fast you work). Remember to frequently save your progress while gif-making: sometimes, photoshop gets overwhelmed and quits while you're mid-color correction 🥲. You never want to start over from scratch...

Now, some people like to crop & resize their gifs first. Or do sharpening before color. Or color, resize, then sharpen. It's really up to you. The order I like to do is Color, Sharpen, Crop, Resize, Export.

PHASE TWO: Color & Sharpening (the fun part!)

1. Brightness/Contrast

So here's where we start getting into the really subjective stuff. I always use the Brightness/Contrast and the Selective Color adjustment layers to do my coloring. I rarely touch the contrast bc that can be adjusted in selective color, but almost always, the gif needs overall brightening.

Tip: Even when I think a video looks bright to my eyes, sometimes I post the gif and they look dark once they're in the app. My advice is to always brighten a little bit, even when you don't think it's needed...

Here shows the very subtle shift in brightness I did for this gif. It can be a lot more intense depending on the video quality/lighting. The difference will also look a lot more stark after the color layer is applied.

2. Selective ColorNext is color. This is totally up to you and what looks good to your eyes. Make sure you have any software turned off that might change the color of your screen (like a nighttime filter or something that removes blue light).

I use selective color bc you can adjust the levels of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black in each color channel independently. This is how I adjust the specific color of red that Charles and Carlos wear, or the amount of cyan in the blacks, etc. The "Neutral" layer effects the whole image, so I'll sometimes add some yellow there if I'm wanting a warmer image, or I'll add or remove black to brighten or darken the mid-tones.

Just play around! Sometimes, I'll take the slider from +100 to -100 back and forth just to see what it's doing to the gif. And I frequently turn on and off the color layer to see what the gif looked like before and after color. (I've found that most F1 content is really magenta-skewed, which you may not even notice until you've corrected it out).

Above is Color vs. No Color. It might look extreme to you presented this way, but when the whole gif is colored, no one questions it! As long as there's consistency across gifs, that's all that matters. I frequently copy and paste my adjustment layers onto another gif from the same interview/video so the look stays consistent.

Above is Color w/ Brightening vs. Without. This gives you a better idea of how much of a difference that Brightness/Contrast layer makes.

3. Sharpening I got my Sharpening routine of choice from this tutorial on gif-making. To be honest, I don't know if it's the best sharpening procedure bc I haven't taken the time to in-depth compare to other ways of doing it, but it looks good to me! So I've stuck with it. (edit: I've also added a Reduce Noise filter to my sharpening routine. But as always, just do what looks nice to you!)

I copy and past the sharpening from my other gifs onto new ones so I don't have to do all the steps again. There are quicker ways of doing this, like using quick actions and stuff, but how I do it is fast enough for me.

If you want to figure out your own Sharpening routine:

With the gif layer selected, go to the top to Filter -> Sharpen -> Smart Sharpen. It will bring up this window:

Here you can play around with the amount, radius, noise reduction, etc. and see what you like.

I also add a Gaussian Blur effect, which you'll find under Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur.

^All of your Sharpen and Blur effects will stack up underneath your gif layer like this. To adjust the opacity of one of these effects, double click on its adjustment/slider symbol to the right, and it'll bring up the Blending Options window.

If there's any sharpening or blurring layer you don't like, you can easily drag it into the trashcan symbol to get rid of it.

Above is a visual of Sharpened vs. None. You can really tell with the difference in the Snapdragon logo on either shoulder. But I also personally love how much more Carlos' eyes pop to me on the Sharpened side.

As you can see, it's up to your preference. Sometimes, I really love gifs I see that aren't sharp, but rather really smooth and almost painterly. It's up to the gif-maker!

PHASE THREE: Crop & Resize

1. Cropping

Go to the toolbar on the left and choose the Crop Tool. Above where it says "Ratio", you can choose from preset ratios that photoshop has, or you can make your own. I like to use the presets, or at the very least, clear numbers that you can apply to a whole gifset. Free transforming without a ratio makes it nearly impossible to maintain consistency across a gifset.

If it isn't already, uncheck "Delete Cropped Pixels". This will allow you to move the gif around inside the cropped area later if you want to adjust what's in frame. It also gives you the option to increase the frame later, if you want. You can also click the gear icon next to "Delete Cropped Pixels" and change how you view the gif during cropping.

When you're done, click the check mark or hit Enter. Now, you've got a cropped gif!

2. Resizing

Go to the top to Image -> Image Size...

Make sure you have Pixels selected. For the Resample tab, I have it set to Automatic here, but sometimes I'll use Bicubic smooth or sharpen, depending on what I'm doing. Here's a cool post that compares the different settings. Just experiment with it.

(edit: I no longer change the resolution to 150. I've found that increasing the resolution, and therefore the size, before ultimately resizing down to 540 px means you are compressing even more (the larger something is, the more it has to be compressed within 540 px). I now leave the resolution at 72, which is what it's set at originally, and if the image composition allows it, try to crop in as close to 540 px as I can get so that when I resize, there's the least amount of compression happening.)

If I know a gif is going to be the full width of a tumblr post, I'll resize the width to 540 pixels (the height doesn't matter). But if I make a portrait-style gif which will be sharing a row with another gif, I'll resize anywhere from 270 px -> 350 px. If it's smaller than 270 px, tumblr will enlarge the gif and it'll look bad. If it's wider than 270 px, tumblr might reduce its quality a bit and it won't look as good. But personally, I prefer that if someone clicks on the gif to enlarge it, it looks better enlarged, so I usually will leave it around 345 px as long as the file isn't too big.

PHASE FOUR: Export (last one!)

Once you're happy with everything about your gif, it's time to export. (Remember to save your progress frequently!)

Go to the top to File -> Export -> Save for Web (Legacy)...

^It'll bring up this Save window.

These are the settings I like to use for gifs. You'll find a lot of differing opinions out there about Adaptive vs. Perceptual/Pattern vs. Diffusion, but you should always have "GIF" selected, "Transparency" checked with "No Transparency Dither" selected, Looping set to "Forever", and Colors set to "256". I like "Bicubic Sharper" for my Quality tab, but there are whole tutorials just about comparing those settings. The best thing to do though is to try them out and compare for yourself.

(edit: I've discovered that if a gif is slightly too large and I don't want to shorten it or resize it down, I can try to reduce the colors from 256 to 128 to get it under the limit. I'll never go below 128, and sometimes I will go to 200 or 170 to try to eliminate as little color variety as possible, but often there is not a noticeable difference in your finished gif. But always compare, of course, to make sure.)

On the bottom left is where the size of the gif is shown -> tumblr requires gifs 10MB and under, but in my experience, gifs load/play best on tumblr when they're around 6MB. I always leave a little growing room as well, bc it might say 5.8MB in this window, but after it saves, the file will have grown a little bit and will likely be over 6MB at that point. (edit: I now regularly post gifs that are around 9.5MB and tumblr seems to be able to handle it better.)

AND THAT'S ALL!

If you've made it this far...congratulations! haha

I know this is a whole lot of information and you might be feeling overwhelmed! But I hope, if anything, this shows you just how complex gif-making can be, and how it is absolutely an art! No one should be stealing anyone's gifs, as a lot of hard work and love goes into the process.

This doesn't include things like adding text to a gif, or more complex adjustments and corrections like masking or key frames. But I'm happy to do more of these if there are specific questions people have.

Let me know what you're curious about or if something is unclear! And happy gif-making! ❤️

#wooow this was a process to make lol #people can let me know if they're curious about adding text or more complex adjustments - i am at your service!#gif tutorial #ask

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Okay I’m STILL procrastinating watching s15 bc I’m SCARED so here’s my extremely biased ratings/opinions on the episodes of s14 to help me procrastinate (episodes which are multiple parts of a single story will be condensed into one slot)

Room Zero: SO cute and good, I LOVED the animation style, it was simple and short but really well done with great colors, fun alien designs, and fluid animation, and I just like seeing the guys go on missions like that. It's a shame that the animated show never got picked up bc I would've adored seeing more of it. 10/10

From Stumbled Beginnings: Very cute and funny origin story for Simmons and Grif, and I love that they were p much always together since they enlisted lmao makes their dynamic rlly good and the humor actually got a couple laughs out of me. 8/10

Fifty Shades of Red: Sarge's humor never quite landed with me like is has for some people (my boyfriend lmao I literally have to pause episodes sometimes so he can stop laughing. Anyway) but it was a very humorous and in character origin for him as well. 5/10

Why They’re Here: Less interesting than the previous two, obviously just meant to fill in plot "holes" and to also show us the origins of the other characters. Also I am completely ignoring that one line from Tucker in the interview, just gonna chalk it up to the "edgy" humor it does not exist to me. 4/10

The Brick Gulch Chronicles: WONDERFUL stop motion, very fun and cute and entertaining, very wholesome and still in the vibe with what the show itself is. I appreciate the willingness to do stop motion for most of it. 10/10

Red Army Unit FH57’s Adventure: It was kinda interesting and kinda funny but I found myself kinda tuning it out cuz it just felt kinda whatever. The combo of the different animation styles was cool though and I thought the ship misunderstanding them was funny. 5/10

Locus and Felix: Okay I'm gonna be a black sheep for a second and say that I rlly don't care that much about Locus and Felix. I don't think Felix is a secretly deep sadboi whom I'm gonna spend an unnecessary amount of time thinking about, I don't think Locus as secretly good all along, and I don't care that much about their partnership and what they were like before Chorus. That being said, the animation here is absolutely gorgeous, this is probably my favorite animated story in the whole season, it looks awesome. The plot is nothing special but who cares like I said it's beautiful, 6/10

Fight the Good Fight!: VERY funny and well-executed propaganda video, short and sweet and nothing more to it. It does its job. 5/10

Meta vs. Carolina: Dawn of Awesome: Another one I really don't care for because literally everything leading UP to the fight between Meta and Carolina is a waste of time. Maybe some people really care about their weapons and stats, but I don't. And even then, you kinda know Carolina is gonna win the fight, the question is just how. 4/10

Grey vs. Gray: I don't know or care about the Game Grumps and the entire thing felt like a short gag that went on for way too long with a predictable ending. 2/10

Caboose's Guide to Making Friends: Again, ADORABLE art style and very cute having a story be told from Caboose's perspective. 7/10

Head Cannon: Kinda funny I guess. I wish we'd gotten it spread out more equally among the heads Omega jumped into. Ik he didn't spend equal time in there but who cares. Whatever, still funny. 5/10

Get Bent: I LAUGHED PROBABLY THE HARDEST AT THIS ONE AND THAT'S MOSTLY BC OF LESBIAN DONUT IT CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD AND IT WAS HILARIOUS (also hello, bisexual church?) 9/10

Red vs. Blue: The Musical: it was fine. it was creative. The dancing was well animated. Enjoyable. 5/10

Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue: I haven't seen Reservoir Dogs but Kaikaina was in this which automatically boosts it to a 8/10 (I also like that they have movie nights it's cute)

RvB Throwdown: Fine but mostly forgettable. 3/10

The Triplets Story: REALLY interesting concept (y'all know I love the freelancers) that felt like it dragged on too long and only gave Ohio something to do. 4/10

Immersion: The Warthog Flip: I loved the costumes and the actual Warthog and it got a couple laughs out of me. 5/10

Red vs. Blue vs. Rooster Teeth: This was made for the fans/themselves. As someone who is neither, none of it was funny and I just kinda waited for it to be over. At least the animation of the armor irl looked rlly good

#sid rants #sid watches #rvb

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silverlininghills · 5 months

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7 + 1 twenty one pilots ask

i was tagged by @dasloddl!! ty!!

1. when/how did you discover them? + what was the first song you listened to? - either on the radio or on yt or at work or something like that, sometime in 2015. idk which song exactly but lets be honest, it was prolly stressed out 😅 or one of the other blurryface singles

2. have you been to any concert(s)? - no 😭 i totally would've seen them on the icy tour but they didn't come to my city 😭 but i'm hoping to go to at least one show on the next tour (either vancouver or, failing that, seattle), and hopefully also the DC show with my bestie!!

3. do you remember where you were when trench dropped (if you were a fan by then)? - weirdly, yes! it was like 9pm on october 4th, i was at home and got a spotify notification that twenty one pilots had released a new album. i listened to the first three songs, went "ehh", and stopped there 😅 which, in hindsight, is so tragic bc if i'd held out for just one more song i would've gotten to my blood, which is one of my absolute favourites!

4. favourite thing about the clique? - how smart and kind and inclusive everyone is!! like i know the clique's got it's share of toxic fans, just like any other fandom/community in general, but esp here on tumblr absolutely everyone i've met/interacted with has been sososo friendly and funny and smart and cool <3

5. any memorable/funny/interesting quote (from interviews/bts footage/…) you especially like? - i'm so bad at thinking up stuff like this off the cuff sldjskdljf there's always smth i think of later that i wish i'd said instead. for right now i'm gonna go with "two happy boys" (or any of the "two ____ boys" riffs that they do), as well as every single story abt how they met 😂

6. what would you want to ask/tell them if you got the chance? - FREAKING. SO MUCH. i'd want to thank them for rewarding us for looking deeper and caring more and sticking around. i'd want to tell them how what they've done w the dema/trench storyline is legitimately incredible and groundbreaking and to, in their own words, "never put a ceiling on their dreams". i'd also want to talk to them for roughly 6 hours abt death cab for cutie bc i Need To Know their thoughts abt literally everything sdlfkjsdkfl

7. which tattoo would you like to know the meaning of (if you do)? - i'm honestly fine w not knowing the meaning to any of their tattoos, bc i know they're v personal, but if i could know the meaning of one and have it be totally okay and willingly shared, it would be, for tyler, the symbols tattoo on the side of his forearm, and for josh, the astronaut-getting-beamed-up tattoo on his bicep.

+1. dasloddl's question for me: which album cover do you like best? - excellent question!! even tho i do love SAI's aesthetic, i think i'd have to go with blurryface on this one. there's just so much meaning behind it!! the pull-out blurry face is genius, the patterns are so fun, it's simple yet evocative. just, stellar art design.

additional question you want to ask the people you tagged: what do you think the genre/vibe of the next album is going to be?

aaaaand i am tagging @mx-misty-eyed @melxncholyman @timedyne @gonerbird and @re4lize-th4t-its-g0ne!!

#personal #shenanigans #get-to-know-you meme

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Ok LMFAO DONT ASK ME HOW I THOUGHT OF THIS BUT I NEED YOUR OPINION

who is mtl to get grumpy or jealous over the thought of you being lovely dovey for someone else or a previous partner. Like who just thinks about you doing the things they love that you do for them for someone else and then they get all upset about it LMFAOO

My guess

Jungkook (HE GOTTA BE THE FIRST ON THE LIST)

Taehyung (Mr. I’ll start little fights with my s/o)

Jimin (Mr. Jealousy.. that leads to cuddling or 🤭)

Yoongi (Special moments are very important to him and if he thinks too much about you having those moments with anyone else he gets pouty ☺️)

Namjoon (He understands and respects the fact y’all were with people before each other BUT if this mans get too deep into thought about you giving whats now rightfully his to someone else.. he’s not gonna be in the best mood)

Seokjin (You’re his now why would he care? 🙄 he’ll care only a little bit cause he’s a die hard romantic and if he thinks about you doing the things he loves for someone else he’s chest get tingling in a bad way 🥺 he’ll play it off though as best as he can)

Hoseok (Your his and his only now so thinking about who had you before doesn’t really bother him, definitely will laugh over the fact they lost out on someone amazing but he gained. Thinking of anyone having you after is also laughable cause it ain’t happening 😌 don’t get it twisted though, baby boy does get jealous and if it does ever bother him he’s finna be all up on you 🤭 take that however you please)

Ok your turn 🤭✨

jungkook is definitely first!!! you right about that one like i’m sorry i’m referencing the perilla leaf debate for the 14829384th time but i will continue to do so bc he was sooooo serious like did not crack one smile the entire time they was talking about it💀 he don’t wanna hear nun bout no ex nd what u did with them point blank pyramid he don’t even wanna see u getting too chummy wit yo friends tbh like if u and yo homegirl was sharing an appetizer or you let her taste yo drink or sumn he would catch a major attitude

taehyung is second only bc i feel like he’s the most dramatic like with everyone else i feel like this could be a Thing but with tae it’s gon be an Incident there’s gonna be an argument for sure a whole “do you even care about me at all? why are we even together??” segment it’s gonna be something out of a YA novel liable to last anywhere from 4 hours to 4 days but at the same time i feel like he’d make it more of a competition than anything else like he may not be the first but he gon be the best and hopefully the last

with joon i’m thinking about how in his rolling stone interview with what’s his face pharrell! when he was talking about how sometimes he hear a song so good he get jealous that he ain’t make it so yeah when it come to you i feel like if he tried to show you one of his favorite spots like a restaurant or sumn nd you absentmindedly was like “oh i’ve been there i went with so and so” he’d lowkey be pissed 😅 like he gon play it cool but it’s the thought of u being at one of his favorite places without him with someone else you were involved with lowkey it’s gon eat him up a little

i think that jimin is like really good with interpersonal relationships like every conversation about exes and likes and dislikes and boundaries all that good stuff will have been had so when he get upset it’s gon be because he done let his imagination get away from like one night he gon be up bc he can’t sleep and the intrusive thoughts will win or y’all will meet up with your friends and you gon have a homie that you done known since way back in the cadillac and he’ll get jealous of how close your bond is and then he’ll get distant and a little snappy and you’ll have to call him out a bit and give him some reassurance to bring him back to normal

hobi the type to say that he don’t care until he do 💀 like he’ll be perfectly fine until he sees or thinks about you doing something with someone else and it’s just gon sit in the corner of his mind like an itch that he can’t quite reach to scratch he not gon make a big deal out of it like he’ll try to deal with it himself for the most part but if he can’t he’ll bring it up lightly nd then you’ll talk about it and then that’s just gon be that on that

yoongi wouldn’t care fr fr like he know how relationships work and understands that you had a few just like he had a few 🤷‍♀️ but what would absolutely tick him off is if you did something with him that you claimed you only ever did with him and then he find out that you did it with everyone else nd they mama like is he a joke to you? is he just another dude to you? and what you got to lie for? that wouldn’t sit right with him but so long as you’re forthcoming it’s whatever nd knows his worth he know you’d be hard pressed to do better than him

seokjin is our unbothered king he’s always said he’s a man of the present so he is not worried about the past at all and the future only warrants minor consideration like as long as y’all cool he not spending no time pondering about other people bc he simply does not care 😌 nor does he care to care he worried about u nd him nd das it 🙅🏾‍♀️

#SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG #BUT I WAS FINALLY ABLE TO FORMULATE SOME THOUGHTS #ask of interest #bts fanfiction #bts fanfic #bts mtl #jeon jungkook x reader #taehyung x you #jimin fanfic #namjoon fanfic #hobi fic #yoongi x oc #seokjin x y/n

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a few months ago I started working at a locally owned restaurant, and during my interview I tried to make it clear to the owner that I left my last job due to it being hard on my body, and I would only be able to work 25-30 hours a week at the absolute maximum. it was fine for about a month, and then I started getting scheduled 32 hrs/wk, even once school had started and I changed my availability. today the owner came to talk to me about the schedule for next week (he usually writes it on friday or saturday, which means planning for anything outside of work is impossible—he forgets about time off requests and I have no way of knowing if I’m actually guaranteed a day off until the schedule is written) and asked if I could work on one of the days outside my availability. I said yes just bc it’s MEA and I have school off one day, but I tried to talk to him about how much I’m getting scheduled and he rlly was like “but you only work 4 days a week 🤔” yes and you’re consistently scheduling me more hours than I said I could physically handle and you only let people take one 15 minute break during their 8 hour shifts AND I’m taking 11 credits this semester 😭

also. I work in an area full of affluent white people and I s2g the entitlement of some of these people… I’ve had customers complain TWICE NOW because I was sweeping within view of them while they were eating 😭 like I’m sorry things can’t just be perfectly clean all the time without a person having to do it. this one person got all huffy because I was sweeping the dining room and had to set my broom down for about 2 minutes to go run food out and my little pile of crumbs was Sort Of within her line of sight during that time. still mad at myself for not just telling her to get over it when she said it was “unappetizing” like it’s no fucking worse than the crumbs being spread out over the floor

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Idk why you think romance will save the day when Max literally ended up dying and in a coma even though she hid in her best memory. Mike, Jonathan and Joyce can help Will to an extent but it is a fact that Will is still bound to Vecna tbh even he tries to fight back his situation is worse and more dangerous than Max's. Plus, Vecna already knows what Will thinks and feels bc of their connection lol. So good luck honestly but i just think it is a little bit unrealistic to think that Mike and Will kissing will save things just fine.

bro obviously Vecna will not die of heartfailure immediately after they confess their love lmao but I want to remind you that Max is not dead yet, season 4 was the part of the story structure where all goes bad for the heroes before their final win and this is a basic story about good vs. evil like the DUFFERS told us many many times in many different interviews.... so yeah, love will save the day, both platonic & romantic ❤️

Max ended up dying because it was inevitable for the story structure + HIDING doesn't save you (coming out does 😉)

Also it's not like we don't have a precedent of this, love already saved the world all of the past seasons, it was one of the basis of the story since the start 🤣

honestly if you want depressing stuff you should try watching HBO they have a lot of things you could like there!

#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #ask #Vecna

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sgtmickeyslaughter · 4 months

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Writer Interview

Tagged by @jrooc thank ya!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Only three so far! Plus art postings and I'm planning to post more in the new year

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

138,169 words which feels like a lot

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

I don't have 5 total fics yet lol but their rankings are

In Your Love

Lovers' Carvings

Psychopomp

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! (usually) I try to respond when people take the time to say something nice about what I've written, because they're encouraging me to write more and I think its good to encourage people to comment/interact more

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Oh, no, I need a certain happy ending, at least in fanfiction. Yes my childhood was unstable, how did you know?

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

They all have sickly sweet happy endings, refer to answer #6

7. Do you write crossovers?

No, I don't really see the appeal personally.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not hate per say, but just some bitching from people who can understand nuance or disagreed with my take on the relationship

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes, so far I have only written it in longer form fics with context, all pretty vanilla. I've wondered for a long time why smut is such a staple of fanfiction and I think that people are frustrated with writers and directors casting aside sex as an (often) valuable part of romantic love and attraction. Like, why are you giving light to affection and communication and support but dismissing the sexual component of love with a closed door, winking and nudging the readers. Thats also a part of why RWRB was such a great movie in my opinion, it treated sex as a normal and healthy and loving part of a couples story, and fanfiction does the same thing. It all ties back into sex being viewed only through the male gaze bc bodice rippers have been doing that for years, but I digress

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope! But I use a lot of really common themes and tropes so theres other fics like mine out there

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, that would be interesting.

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, I would love collaborating with other writers or creators here! Either writing together, making art to accopnay of fic or beta reading one another, my only real worry about getting involved is not making deadlines, my life is busy and I like to know i can work at my own pace and publish once completed so I don't leave anyone hanging

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Honestly, Gallavich. But longest running? Zutara, I'm hoping to see a renaissance there with the new series

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I think I'll be able to get everything done, sooner or later

15. What are your writing strengths?

I think I'm pretty good at coming up with cohesive and interesting plots, and I think i'm slowly becoming pretty good at getting into a characters head and writing dialouge for them

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Proofreading! Bro I will print something I've written out to review but still catch like 7 stupid mistakes when I scroll through quickly after posting that shit drives me crazy

I also want to get really really good at controlling the pace of a piece of writing, not that its a weakness per say im just not as good as I'd like to be yet

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Eh, its fine. A lot of the time I wonder who it's for though, like if you dont speak the language and just translate something through an inaccurate translator, it's not really for a fluent speaker and its not really for you

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Shameless

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

I've toyed with writing a supernatural fic before. We'll see, I'm in no rush

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Psychopomp! No one else seemed to like it as much as I did but that's fine by me it was my weird little passion project :)

Share your throughs @sweetperversiongirl @stocious @mmmichyyy @vintagelacerosette

#tag game #sgt says

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curiosity-killed · 2 months

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Fic Writer Interview

Tagged by @veliseraptor right when I turned work notifications off for 2 hours which feels auspicious

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

148 😅

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

1,201,484! For a couple years there, I was kind of cranking but now I basically haven't written fic for two years so uh. chilling at 1.2 million

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

This is always mildly upsetting to me because my favorites are rarely the winners lol

a bow for the bad decisions (3536)

willow branches and flowers (2785)

upon this altar (2745)

heart + bone (2090)

whipstitch (2024)

...well at least I like 2 of these lol

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to! I used to respond to every comment and then got overwhelmed and fell completely behind and THEN decided to clean house and answer all of the remaining ones...and the next day posted heart + bone and now have uh... 688 AO3 emails sitting in my inbox :') I periodically try to go in and answer at least a handful but honestly it's gotten very sporadic

5. What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

Off hesperus! I don't think I write a lot of true angst or tragedies tbh. But that one was meant to be 100% genuine, no happy endings angst. And admittedly it's not AS bad as it could have been but. it is probably as bad as I am likely to write (unfortunately (?), I left my "kill all your fave characters, make everyone suffer, burn it down!!!" writing vibes back in middle school mostly).

6. What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

I have so much fluff how am I supposed to pick. ...most of my tgcf fics? heart + bone and sunlight, sunlight, sunlight are pretty absurdly fluffy by the end.

7. Do you write crossovers?

Not really. Back in the olden days (high school/college), I did more—see: whisper something holy, the OG loki fic... I think there were some others?—but it's pretty rare now.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

ehhh not really hate, just some folks who got lost and wound up mad in the comments that *checks notes* local complexity lover let characters be complex. I just turned off anonymous comments for a while and it was fine

9. Do you write smut?

Sometimes! I tend to write (& draw) smut when I'm stuck in a rut (pun sadly not intended), stressed, and struggling to make things which is. something to know about myself. but also means that it often serves as sort of an on ramp to making art that I care about more and so it's often left unfinished.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so? I have no idea how I'd know but honestly, I think my writing is enough directed toward my interests/wants that it's not a prime candidate for stealing lol

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes!! it's so cool!! and if she leads was translated into mandarin which!! is bonkers to me that's so much work

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I don't think I've ever actually done it. Isaac (@/lemeute) and I have co-developed a few ideas before but I think they went the way of the raccoon poll and sort of died in discord (though the yanqing AU did contribute to me drawing art!)

13. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Ah I really struggle with this. Really high up there, and probably chief in staying power, is Altair/Malik(/& Maria) and then in terms of ones that have sort of rewritten my brain chemistry it's like Stucky, Cartinelli, Cap2 Crew, Ranwan, Hualian, Destiel...uh I'm definitely missing some there but that's a sampler!

14. What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

;A; oh god. I mean. a short list:

wulian au

yunmeng jiang everyone dies

bodyswap (mdzs)

light dancer (atla)

I have many more wips but they're in more varying stages of either "I don't actually care that much if I finish these" (all unfinished MCU fics) or "I will actually finish this" (sixteen stitches).

15. What are your writing strengths?

uhhhhhhhhhh i hate this question bc my brain is immediately like "here is a laundry list of everything ur bad at and ALSO ur wrong. abt the things ur good at." bc well. mental wellness. ANYWAY i think I'm like ?? pretty good at creating intensity in writing??? I've talked about it before as viscerality and it is that but also like emotional intensity. and I do think I can craft a pretty turn of phrase here and there

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

well. plot, for one thing. having one? executing one? keeping it consistent without giant holes for everything to fall apart through? nahh. Similarly, continuity overall is! not a strength. Do you know how many notes there are in TCP asking myself to just sketch out a blueprint of the palace where 90% of the first book takes place. can u imagine

there are. more. but i will pause there

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I think it's something that needs to be done with intent and like. care. like, okay. actually I feel extremely subjective about this. Like on the one hand, I think there are times when I think using another language provides important connotative information that is lost when translating to English* (e.g., Wei Wuxian calling Lan Wangji er-gege or Jiang Yanli shijie which don't have very direct counterparts in English, but also if I were to write about my teacher calling me "chica" rather than "girl"). On the other hand, I think it's very important to be cautious (particularly as a white anglophone) about...like. Seasoning Ur Dialogue with Spicy Bits of Other Languages (I am struck by flashbacks of fanon Lance from VLD. bls.). ON THE THIRD HAND, depending on the POV of the work, writing dialogue in a different language can serve different functions in the text (e.g., if the reader knows what it means but the character doesn't, we can have some nice dramatic irony! when it's done well; if the character knows what it means but the reader doesn't, it can build suspense; if both know what it means, it can give insights into different character dynamics/backgrounds/etc.), but again, it should be done with care and intent.

uh i don't know that this actually answered the question or anything. i have feelings???? and minimally coherent thoughts?

*I am being so brave rn in trying not to go down a rabbithole about translation and meaning ;A;

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Marvel :')

19. What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

hh hold on i need to go holler at lise and huaqing possibilities

anYWAY yanqing, xianle quartet (variably romantic), erha*, huaqing*, the king's affection**

*technically i've written once for these but like. not fr fr

**I still haven't finished this bc I am inexplicably stressed abt my blorbos suffering but STILL

20. What's your favorite fic you've written?

oh gosh I feel like a broken record bc my fave fics have pretty much been the same for a long time but yeah, of swords and wings is still pretty much my fave largely because, even as it has aged (and I have become more critical of the actual writing), it was so finely tailored to my specific preferences, headcanons, and wants that it still remains quite loved

tagging anyone who wants to do this! (sorry, laziness wins)

#tag meme #fic writer interview #it me

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i've tried to write this post more than once, but apparently i was never really clear, so: here's a "list of reasons why i believe jimmy and kim have to find each other again in gene's timeline".

1) bcs is, at the core, a love story. it wasn't exactly planned, but the showrunners saw something special about bob and rhea's chemistry and got inspired. so the mystery woman from the cornfield at hhm slowly became a main character, to the point where the main focus of the the legal plot has been their relationship, at least from season four. you can't just erase all that as if it was nothing.

2) superficial dismissal should be illegal. and i am not even sure i am joking, really. if i read another theory about kim showing up and being like "yay hi jimbo now i am totally fine" or "see i got married and have five children two dogs and a parrot", i am going to scream very loudly. it's not that i don't want kim to move on, find herself again, of course i do!!! but first of all, randomly getting married working some job she doesn't even like is literally the life she escaped from when she was young; then, honestly, it would be so fucking offensive to her beautiful, nuanced, extremely detailed arc. first you slowly and carefully build a complex character, then you just flatten six years of her life telling us what happened to her and not showing it? because honestly, they have literally no time to show it, while of course for jimmy it was different, we know what was going on with him because of brba. if she shows up and she has just put everything behind her, it would feel... rushed. rushed, and unacceptable.

3) kim willingly destroyed her happiness. rhea talked about this nonstop in her interviews after 609. there is a clear and wonderful selflessness in her choice to leave, but that's just one side of the coin... the other is much darker. after what happens to howard and after understating that she was having so much fun playing with his life that she lied to jimmy in the process, she can't live inside her own skin anymore. so she erases herself completely. leaves her home, leaves the job of her dreams and then leaves the only relationship that has ever made her happy. she decides not to be herself anymore, because that's what she deserve. now, you see that this is a heartbreaking process that can't just be told offscreen (see point 2) without showing it, but also something she has to face with jimmy. because playing god once again deciding what punishment fits her crimes — leaving the only one who ever truly saw her and loved her for who she was, that is — is not a healthy behavior. and to go on, in my opinion, kim has to realize that she can be a good person who does good things without stripping herself of all happiness. she has to see the two are not mutually exclusive. and she can only do that finding that happiness again, or at least remembering it, with jimmy. not because i necessarily want them to be endgame, but because any other relationship for her, or source of happiness, couldn't possibly be explored as it should. it can only be jimmy.

4) jimmy not so willingly did it as well. just like kim, he skinned himself of his true self and wore the bloody mask of saul goodman instead. he thinks he ruined her life, he believes his love was not enough... so what's the point anymore? a theme that is now emerging strongly with gene (the! monologue! in! 610!). jimmy sees himself as unworthy, someone who destroys everything around him. but that's not what happened with kim, that's not what she was telling him: as i wrote more than once, she didn't leave him, she left their relationship and everything wrong that came with it, but to jimmy it was unthinkable that she could ever be bad for him... so it had to be his fault, right? and that guilt, that shame, that need to punish himself stays with him to the point where we find him leading a colorless, meaningless life without any purpose, and with a heart filled with loneliness and regret. do the writers really want to leave jimmy like that, still believing it was all his fault if kim left? thinking he is undeserving of love when it was never her point? can this huge misunderstanding between the two just be forgotten? how, i wonder, if jimmy has to look inward, move on and be a better person?

so... yeah. to me, at least narratively speaking and if they don't fuck up (or find something much better than these silly theories of mine) kim's peace of mind depends on jimmy, and jimmy's growth depends on kim. i could add that, given how little screen time they have left and if they don't fuck up kim's arc by rushing it, their happiness ultimately depends on their relationship. such an all-encompassing love like theirs can't be read very differently.

to me, but i could be 100% wrong, kim and jimmy have to meet again and need to bring it all back, from the traumas to the love. to be endgame? maybe, i wish lol. but that's not the point. i think they need it to complete their arc as characters and as people. to find themselves again, be themselves again, and realize they can be happy in their skin.

in the end, it's all about that.

#THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK #THIS IS SO FUCKING LONG SJGSISH #no one should read it this is just me pretending i know shit about characters arcs and stuff lololol #i am so full of shit #bcs #better call saul #bcs s6 spoilers #jimmy mcgill #kim wexler #bob odenkirk #rhea seehorn #mcwexler #meta

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